Chapter 789: Treasures of the Secret Room
"Master Su has wronged me!" Ma Chengcheng pretended to be aggrieved and pitiful: "I just want to show Gongzi the sincerity of me and our slave farm!"
I have to say that Qin Sheng really has no interest in the Royal Sister. Especially this kind of royal sister who doesn't know how many hundred years old and has to deliberately pretend to be tender, makes Qin Sheng feel a little cold.
It's just that because of the scene, he can't show it. I had to echo and smiled: "I think it's better to go to the secret room, I can't wait!"
"Okay!" Ma Chengcheng was also self-aware, seeing that Qin Sheng was not interested in her appearance, he immediately returned to his normal state, and turned to Qin Sheng to make a gesture of please.
Although Ma Chengcheng has always been very confident in her appearance, but looking at Li Shishi, she has to admit that she doesn't have any advantages at all.
Not to mention that on the other side, there is a woman who looks like a white lotus. Although Su Yunuo wore a veil, it was not easy for her to use her spiritual power to forcibly snoop because of politeness.
But there is no need to look at it at all, she can also guess that this Su Yunuo's appearance is definitely overwhelming. Especially the holy aura revealed by her body made Ma Chengcheng feel a little ashamed.
The auction hall was not there, under the leadership of Ma Chengcheng. The group soon arrived in the so-called secret room.
In fact, this secret room is a little similar to the secret room of the slave farm where Qin Sheng had been before. It is said to be a secret room, but it is actually a secret cage.
In the vast underground space, one cage after another is connected to each other. Qin Sheng glanced at it and found that although this Ma family's slave farm looked like it was much smaller than the slave farm of the mysterious person that Qin Sheng went to before.
However, the cage used to hold slaves in this underground chamber is much larger than the slave farm of the mysterious man.
What does this mean, it shows that this Ma family auction house is not clean!
There are two kinds of slaves, one of which is "hereditary", to put it bluntly, that is, if your father and mother are slaves, then you are also slaves. Unless you are pardoned, then you will have a child in the future, and that child will also be a slave.
As for the other, there are prisoners of war. At the end of a war, plundered cities and treasures are only part of the story. Another type of wealth of great value is the prisoners of war.
There are two types of prisoners of war, one is a soldier who has cultivated himself, and the other is a civilian prisoner who has captured a city.
The only use of these two captives was to be turned into slavery by the victorious nation.
Soldier captives are more difficult to domesticate, but are highly valuable. In particular, the fact that a group of soldiers were taken back by those families was directly equivalent to buying a whole set of armed forces back.
Give them weapons, and they'll be able to fight in no time.
Civilian captives, on the other hand, are easier to tame, but less valuable. They were usually sold to others as concubines, child servants, or slaves for menial work.
But no matter which one it is, it's a lucrative deal.
But as time went on, wars became less and less common between countries. Not to mention the fall of a city like that one of those megacities.
If the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the people will be rich and strong. Once people have money, they will no longer want to do many jobs themselves, and they will want to buy slaves. Or they want to buy some cultivated slaves to protect the safety of their family property.
This has led to a situation where the demand for slaves is increasing, and there are fewer and fewer slaves.
As the saying goes, where there is demand, there will be a market. Under the temptation of huge profits, some mercenary groups also began to become restless, and began to unite with the people of the slave farm, often sneaking into the borders of neighboring countries, to sneak into some villages, small cities, and bring people there to sell.
Some of the larger mercenary groups are targeting the rest of the mercenary groups.
often do some things that are behind the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finch, and directly annihilate some mercenary groups. Then take out the mercenaries of the mercenary group and sell them.
Not to mention anything else, the price at which a silver-level mercenary can be sold is definitely more than the total price of a thousand-person village. But there is one problem that was mentioned earlier, these mercenaries are not so easy to tame.
Low-level mercenaries are better to say, high-level mercenaries are strong-willed, and it is not that torture can make them submit.
But each of these mercenaries is worth a lot of money, and it is impossible to kill them directly.
Therefore, it is undoubtedly the safest way to detain them and use time to smooth out their edges and corners.
And during this time, if someone is willing to buy them away, then the slave farm is naturally very willing.
But it's a pity that this slave. It's not visible, it's okay to trade privately, but it's impossible to buy and sell openly.
Some may question the illegality of this private slave trade. Then why didn't these slaves first pretend to agree, wait until they left the slave farm and left the custody, and then look for an opportunity to escape?
However, this is not difficult to understand, as if the earth had experienced a slave society.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of slaves were sold. It is often seen that in the market, a cunning merchant like a fox leads dozens or hundreds of tall and strong slaves and sells them along the street.
It stands to reason that if these slaves stand up a few times, they will be able to beat the slave owner like a dog.
But they don't know how to do it at all, or only in certain circumstances, for the simple reason that even if they can beat the slave owner who enslaved them to death, the environment will not change in any way.
Their revolt can bring not freedom, but more repression. Then they were implicated and put to death along with their companions and many innocent people.
Under such high pressure, these people began to gradually become numb. So that in the end, I thought about how to survive, not how to escape and be free.
Now it's the same on this continent, yes, it's not bad that these mercenaries or ordinary civilians have been captured and become illegal slaves.
But they only have one chance to escape, and that is to be rescued before they are bought. Once they are bought by the buyer, then the sale is established, and their status as slaves is already settled.
Because the law is used to protect the interests of its own people, these slaves are not from the Great Shun Kingdom, no matter how they say. Once they were bought by the people of Da Shun, they became the private property of their masters.
Even if their existence was not legal before, after being bought, it has become legal private property.
Once under the law, they became slaves. It is necessary to demand oneself according to a whole set of rules of conduct for slaves. This is also the impact of the social environment, they are safe and secure as slaves, and they can still survive.
If they are restless and dishonest. In addition to severe punishment, slave owners could even apply for the death penalty for their execution.
Although compared to the slave era on Earth, slave owners could dispose of the life and death of slaves at will. There's an extra program on this continent.
But as the saying goes, rules are dead. People are alive, and even if a slave dies in those families, just add an explanation afterwards, and the impact will not be great.
No one would really force a slave owner to die for the sake of a slave's life or death.
Of course, if someone could trouble the slave owner, it was another matter.
And then again, these slaves are trapped here now, and they want someone to get them out before they are bought, unless a miracle happens.
So, although it is still struggling to persevere. However, it can be seen that most of the slaves trapped here are all dead-faced, and there is not the slightest desire to express them.
"This is what you call good goods?" Qin Sheng touched his chin and glanced at it: "There is even a silver rank mixed in it, I don't think it's very good!"
"Hehe!" Hearing Qin Sheng's teasing, Ma Chengcheng was not angry. Instead, he explained with a smile: "Although this is a secret room, the ranking is also orderly, and these people at the door naturally can't get into the eyes of Su Gongzi." Please also son, please follow me inside!"
"Let's go!" Qin Sheng shrugged his shoulders with an indifferent look.
While walking, Ma Chengcheng once again tentatively said: "Young Master Su, dare to ask." I'm afraid you're not just here for the forty silver and ten gold tiers this time!"
"Hehe!" Qin Sheng smiled meaningfully: "I'm only here for money!"
"Oh?" Ma Chengcheng's eyes lit up: "What does that son mean that as long as you make money, you dare to do it?"
"Presumably no one will have trouble with money!" Qin Sheng also smiled and said: "Actually, Boss Ma doesn't have to continue to test anything, if you have any money-making business, just take it out." Afterwards, I'll go back to my Tianyan City, you are your boss Ma, none of us have seen anyone, isn't it wonderful?"
"Okay!" Hearing Qin Sheng's words, Ma Chengcheng's eyes lit up and said: "Since Su Gongzi is so confident, then I Ma Chengcheng can't say anything more hypocritical." To tell you the truth, we have a batch of fresh goods that only arrived yesterday in our hands, and we have all the cultivation from gold to Wuzong, if Childe sees it, at least the price below the market will be given to Childe!"
Five-fold, sounds very tempting. But in fact, it is also necessary to take into account that this so-called fresh goods is a mercenary who has just been caught. These mercenaries, whose edges and corners have not yet been smoothed, may have bought a hot potato by forcibly buying them.
When the time comes, if you are not careful, not only will you not get any benefits, but you will hurt yourself!